Evaluating the Effect of Digital Etiquette Educational Intervention on Adherence to Virtual Healthy Behaviors in Primary School Students

Developing and Evaluating the Effect of Digital Etiquette Educational Intervention on Adherence to Virtual Healthy Behaviors in Primary School Students.

An educational trial of before and after type, with parallel groups, randomized, with the participation of 245 boy and girl students of the fifth and sixth grade of elementary school.

This study will be conducted in primary schools of Khomeini Shahr. First of the 82 schools of the second period of elementary school, 46 schools located in the city center, which were more homogenous in terms of socioeconomic status and other conditions, were identified. Then, using the table of random numbers, two primary schools for girls and two primary schools for boys with 5th and 6th grades as the test group and two primary schools for girls and two primary schools for boys with 5th and 6th grades as the control group. The data before and two months after the intervention are collected and compared by means of a virtual healthy behavior questionnaire.

inclusion criteria: 5th and 6th grade male and female students who wish to participate in the research, have a smart cell phone, and their parents consent for their child's participation in the study. Exclusion criteria: students who have been absent from educational sessions for more than 2 sessions and are not present at the time of data collection

Intervention group: The intervention in this group will be conducted for six weeks using effective intervention methods and strategies, including lectures, role playing, scenario statements, questions and answers, etc. Control group: no intervention

1.Virtual healthy behavior 2. Attitude towards behavior 3. Subjective norms 4.Risk of Prototype 5.Willingness 6. Intention to observance digital etiquette

In the present study, one -stage cluster sampling was used. In fact, individuals are not the sampling unit, but schools are the sampling unit. First, the list of all schools with their exact addresses was obtained from the Department of Education, which included 82 schools. Then, based on the resulting list and to homogenize the samples, we categorized them based on the address of each school. Then, all the schools that were more homogenous in terms of socio-economic status and other conditions in the center of Khomeini Shahr were identified, which included 46 schools. In the sampling process, the gender distribution of the participants and their educational level were also considered. Then, considering all the mentioned conditions, using random number table, the following schools were selected as research units, separately from case and control groups: Selected schools of the intervention group (125 people) 5th grade of Shahid Iraqi Boys' School with 30 students 6th grade of Tarbiyat Boys' School with 24 students 5th grade of Davrpanah 20 Girls' School with 33 students 6th grade of Gol Narges Girls' School with 38 students Selected schools of the control group (120 people) 5th grade of Besat Boys' School with 30 students 6th grade of Dr. Hassan Ayat Boys' School with 27 students 5th grade of Shahed Amirkhani Girls' School with 30 students 6th grade of Forough girls' school with 33 students

Participants' data will remain confidential to the researcher due to the given assurance at the beginning of the study.

Some of the information about the main consequences can be shared

One year after the results are published

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